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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Oilman Max Thornburg, onetime administrator of Iran's defunct Seven-Year Plan, who lives part of each year like an air-conditioned Robinson Crusoe on one of the Bahrein Islands, says: "If the Point Four people really want to know how to handle this sort of thing, they should come out here and study Bahrein...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SIX KINGDOMS OF OIL: THE PERSIAN GULF STRIKES IT RICH | 3/3/1952 | See Source »

When TV first became mass entertainment three years ago, nobody had a very clear idea what to do with it. "We started out on TV peeking through a keyhole at a Broadway revue," says Max Liebman, producer of Your Show of Shows (Sat. 9 p.m., NBC-TV). When Liebman put on his first TV revue in 1949, dancers practiced in a bare room off Broadway; skits were worked out in cubbyhole offices and washrooms. Liebman's show went on the air without a camera rehearsal and from the stage of a theater. Curtains opened & closed for each number...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Come of Age | 2/25/1952 | See Source »

...students. J. Max Bond, Jr. '55 and James J. Boone, Jr. '55, said that University officials "did not know about the incident...

Author: By Philip M. Cronin, | Title: Leighton Calls Yardling 'Fiery Cross' Deplorable | 2/23/1952 | See Source »

...regrettable that this matter has not received previous mention. We expected that other freshmen, witnesses to the affair, would have written to the CRIMSON, commenting on it. Apparently we were mistaken, hence our belated action. James Bows, Jr. '55 J. Max Bond...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FIERY CROSS | 2/21/1952 | See Source »

...late book form have tried to jazz up this unkempt new of material. Regrettably they menage only to give Philbrick's work an air of musical-comedy intrigue which pretty well befogs anything serious he has to say. His woman co-Communists are all drawn in the image of Max Shulman's Yetts Samovar; they are bright, sophisticated, stringy-haired, and wear sensible flat shoes as they go about their nefarious work. His men meet conspiratorially in darkened alleys. His Communist cells are all "mystery" groups thinking up "mystery" plans. Philbrick constantly adopts the label of "counterspy." The only person...

Author: By Paul W. Mandel, | Title: A Spy Reveals Mysterious, Dull Life | 2/14/1952 | See Source »

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